Labor vows to take further action if potential burial sites at other stolen generations-era institutions are uncovered
The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, is open to funding further investigations at the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home after the discovery ofMinns has also vowed to take further action if more potential burial sites at other institutions of theHe said he was concerned by Guardian Australia’s reports last week that at least nine “suspicious” possible grave sites had been identified on the grounds of the violent and abusive Kinchela home.
Minns said the site was no longer owned by the state and said the government needed to engage with the Kempsey land council. The home was run by the state government from 1924 until 1970. The survivor organisation Kinchela Boys’ Home Aboriginal Corporation has called on the NSW and federal governments to urgently fund further searches of the entire property.
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